This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream
media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously
biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: Vox
10/12/2022
Political and media historian David Greenberg describes the way that political insiders created the idea of a last-minute news bombshell but says such surprises don't usually disrupt the core dynamics of an election.
Source: MacArthur Foundation
10/12/2022
P. Gabrielle Foreman, Monica Kim and Steven Ruggles are among the 2022 Class of MacArthur fellowship awardees, commonly known as "Genius Grants."
Source: The Nation
10/3/2022
Emancipation wasn't just an idea, it was a literal place, described in a new book as the route around the periphery of the South traced by Black Americans in pursuit of work, business, and family reunification.
Source: Nashville Scene
10/10/2022
Incoming AHA President Thavolia Glymph discussed how the actions of Black refugees who moved behind Union lines at Fort Negley and other locations changed the meaning of the war and ensured that it would ultimately abolish slavery.
Source: Iowa Public Radio
10/10/2022
Although abortion has always been tied up with the political controversies of the day, its entanglement with specifically religious views is relatively new.
Source: Humanities
10/1/2022
The new NEH chair discusses her family history in Arizona, the maintenance of Navajo language and culture, and the future of the humanities.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
10/7/2022
Supporters have praised Sasse's vision for transforming higher education institutions, while detractors have questioned whether he is interested in resisting or enabling the politicization of Florida's universities and whether he's familiar enough with high-level research universities.
Source: Washington Post
10/7/2022
Dwight Eisenhower was a visitor to Fort Gordon en route to golf outings at Augusta National. Critics wonder if Ike was the best choice for renaming the base. Military historian Ty Seidule defended the naming process as open and suggested complete consensus was not possible.
Source: Washington Post
10/6/2022
Ruth Ben-Ghiat argues that the Big Lie is part of a process of normalizing the rejection of election results.
Source: Academic Freedom Alliance
10/5/2022
Two scholars at work on a project to examine how anti-CRT legislation is affecting academic freedom on the ground explain the context and stakes of their project.
Source: WABE
10/5/2022
The historian traces a long history of racial violence that fed the January 6 insurrection in the new documentary "I, Too." This Q&A followed the film's premier at the Carter Center in Atlanta.
Source: Mother Jones
10/5/2022
Historian David S. McCarthy puts a new CIA-sponsored podcast in the context of decades-long efforts by the Agency to portray itself as the good guys in a dangerous world while obscuring their role in creating the danger.
Source: The New Yorker
10/5/2022
by Geraldo Cadava
Kelly Lytle-Hernandez's new book examines the cross-border politics of the Mexican revolution and the role of elites on both sides in squelching a radical movement challenging elite rule in Mexico.
Source: New York Times
10/5/2022
For Black Americans, everything about the second world war looked different, including the start date, which the Black press dated to the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1935. A new book centers the issue of global racism in a narrative of the conflict.
Source: Washington Post
10/4/2022
by Ned Blackhawk
The new book shows the complexity of territorial conflict between settler and indigenous groups, but by ending in 1890, it punts on the task of explaining how the conflict ended resoundingly in favor of the settlers and their ideas of territory, law and power.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
10/5/2022
by Colleen Flaherty
All five members of the center's executive committee have resigned in support of Prof. Limerick. She has argued that her dismissal will make other scholars reluctant to commit to public engagement outside the university wall.
Source: The Atlantic
10/1/2022
The establishment of corn as the center of indigenous American agriculture was slow; researchers are considering how other crops could have come to dominate the American food system.
9/29/2022
In the words of juror Martha S. Jones, "These eight works embody bravery – in their choice of subject matter, archival ambition and interpretive boldness."
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture
9/29/2022
“We should not be creating a system in which guest workers are exploited and exploitable, and we're basically justifying it by saying, well, they're feeding their families.”
Source: The Guardian
9/29/2022
Using painstaking archaeological methods, Reynolds laid a new foundation for understanding how Rome related to its eastern provinces.
